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Topic Lesson 12: //**Can't You Make Them Behave, King George?**//

Common Core Standards RI5.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. RI5.4 Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area. RI5.5 Compare and contrast the overall structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts. W5.1a-d Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. W5.5 With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, and rewriting.

Suggested Student Objectives 1. Students will identify and distinguish facts from opinions. 2. Students will write a persuasive essay.

Suggested Additional Readings Literary Texts Poetry
 * __ Toliver's Secret, __ by Esther Wood Brady
 * __ Why Don't You Get a Horse, Sam Adams? __ byJean Fritz
 * __ Sleds on Boston Common: A Story from the American Revolution, __ by Louise Borden and Robert Andrew Parker
 * "Concord Hymn," by Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * "Nation's Strength," by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Resource Links
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 * "No More Kings," Schoolhouse Rock DVD
 * Rock and Revolution, "Too Late to Apologize" 2010

Activities
 * ** Your Turn **, Student Book, page 315. Students will work with a partner and choose one of the activities: "No Your Highness" or "King for a Day."

Assessments 1. Practice Book, pages 133-134 2.Writing Rubric 1-4, see TE T127 and R18 3. Weekly Test 12.4-12.5

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